Astra Defense

The light of the star began in 1908, when Astra was founded in Eibar in the Basque Country (Spain), by Pedro Unceta and Juan Esperanza in Eibar (Spain). The production started with the pistol named Victoria and only in 1913, when the company moved to Guernica, the heart of the Basque Country, Europe knew the great skills of this guns' manufactures. The legendary Ruby pistol was supplied to the Italian and French Armies during the WWI and the Astra guns were taken into service during Spanish Civil War.